Netherlands-based cigar company Royal Agio Cigars has announced plans to establish a wholly-owned U.S. Based Headquarters. In addition, the company also announced it will be launching its own U.S. based sales force. For the past three years, Royal Agio had been working with Drew Estate to handle its U.S. sales and distribution. While the U.S. […]
John Drew Brands, the spirits startup venture by Drew Estate President Jonathan Drew has installed a new leadership team. The company was founded in 2016 with the goal of becoming “an authentic lifestyle company”, initially focusing on the development of alcoholic beverage brands. The leadership team includes: Jonathan Drew, CEO Nancy Berkowitz, President Steve Chernoff, National […]
The Herrera Esteli TAA Exclusive, a cigar introduced by Drew Estate for the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) in 2016 is returning. This time, the cigar will be an on-going offering to TAA members. Each year, the TAA commissions cigar manufacturers to make exclusive cigars for its retail members. There are two types of TAA […]
Drew Estate has announced that its long-awaited Kentucky Fired Cured Swamp Thang and Swamp Rat is now making its way to retailers.This is a project that brings together two unlikely types of tobacco – Fired Cured tobacco and Candela. This release is the company’s first venture into candela. Word that a Fire-Cured / Candela project for the Kentucky Fire […]
Ventura Cigar Company has announced an expanded distribution of its Archetype Chapter 2 line. This is a line under the Archetype brand that consists of two cigars produced by Drew Estate – Initiation and Axis Mundi. In addition the company has updated the packaging of both of these cigars. Archetype was announced back in […]
Drew Estate has announced its Barn Smoker Events for 2017. Once again, Barn Smoker events return to Florida, Connecticut, and Kentucky. This year, the company has announced it plans to add a Barn Smoker to the state of Louisiana. The Barn Smoker events bring consumers directly to farms to learn about growing and processing tobacco […]
Drew Estate has named Stephan Qarimi as its International Market Manager and Director of Travel Retail. Qarimi comes from Royal Agio Cigars where he spent 11 years as that company’s International Sales and Marketing Manager. Royal Agio Cigars is a company where Drew Estate handles distribution for in the U.S. market. In a press release […]
Drew Estate has announced its second executive appointment in two days. Today the company named David Lazarus its new Vice President of Sales. Known as “Laz”, Lazarus will have overall accountability for field sales, inside sales, key national accounts, in-store events, and wholesale. Lazarus will report directly to the CEO, Glenn Wolfson. “We are thrilled to […]
Drew Estate has announced company co-founder Jonathan Drew has signed a new multi-year agreement where he will assume the role as President of the company. In this role, Drew returns to an executive operations position reporting to CEO Glenn Wolfson where his responsibilities will include overseeing the entire portfolio of Drew Estate’s brands. Following the […]
Late in 2014, Drew Estate announced a partnership with Pappy & Company to produce a small batch cigar line to be distributed exclusively by Pappy & Co. The concept of this project would be to create a cigar could be paired with Pappy & Company’s Van Winkle bourbon and rye products. The resulting line would be known as […]
